Letter: Guest columnist needs to get it right about the left

Posted: January 21, 2013 - 11:54pm

I sincerely hope Carl Fowler (Guest columnist Carl Fowler: The truth behind Democratic fairy tales, Jan. 5, amarillo.com) did a better job teaching his students how to conduct research, because his is sadly lacking. He claims to vote Republican, not because he is a Republican but because he is not a Democrat.

That is all well and good, but he needs to get his facts straight about what the two parties actually believe.

Republicans claim to be against government controlling their lives, but they insist on laws that do just that. They want to pass laws that control what a person can do with his or her own body. These decisions should be based on the individual, her doctor and her personal God, not on the government dictating.

Fowler is, of course, referring to abortion. I do not find anywhere in the Democratic platform a plank that promotes abortion. I do find, however, parts of the Republican platform that want to make government the decider. What Democrats advocate is the best decision based on the medical and ethical circumstances.

If Republicans were as concerned about babies after they were born as they were about the unborn, our country would be a much better and more Christian country.

To answer more of Mr. Fowler’s unfounded charges, the Democratic Party believes all Americans should pay their fair share of taxes, not just the already over-burdened middle class.

While Mr. Fowler is also concerned about “fairy tales,” it might be wise for him to check out the Golden Rule — do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Maybe Mr. Fowler and his Republican friends have forgotten that.

Finally, most of us thinking people have had our Ayn Rand period of fantasy, but most of us have out grown it and realized it is just that — fantasy.

Mr. Fowler needs to leave the teaching of philosophy to those who are qualified.